Peter Sarsgaard
Also Known As: John Peter Sarsgaard, 피터 사스가드, پیتر سارسگارد, پيتر سارسگارد
Biography: John Peter Sarsgaard (born March 7, 1971) is an American actor. His first feature role was in Dead Man Walking in 1995. He then appeared in the 1998 independent films Another Day in Paradise and Desert Blue. That same year, Sarsgaard received a substantial role in The Man in the Iron Mask (1998), playing Raoul, the ill-fated son of Athos. Sarsgaard later achieved critical recognition when he was cast in Boys Don't Cry (1999) as John Lotter. He landed his first leading role in the 2001 film The Center of the World. The following year, he played supporting roles in Empire, The Salton Sea, and K-19: The Widowmaker. For his portrayal of Charles Lane in Shattered Glass, Sarsgaard won the National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actor and was nominated for the 2004 Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor. Sarsgaard has appeared in an eclectic range of films, including the 2004 comedy-drama Garden State, the biographical film Kinsey (2004), the drama The Dying Gaul (2005), and big-budget films such as Flightplan (2005), Jarhead (2005), The Skeleton Key (2005), Orphan (2009), An Education (2009), Knight and Day (2010), Green Lantern (2011), Lovelace (2013), Kelly Reichardt's Night Moves (2013), Blue Jasmine (2013), Black Mass (2015), and The Magnificent Seven (2016). Sarsgaard also appeared in the American TV series The Killing (2013) as a man on death row perhaps wrongfully convicted for the brutal murder of his wife—a performance which he says included "some of the best acting I have ever done in my life." In 2021, he had a recurring role on the Hulu miniseries Dopesick. Sarsgaard has appeared in Off-Broadway productions including Kingdom of Earth, Laura Dennis, Burn This, and Uncle Vanya. In September 2008, he made his Broadway debut as Boris Alexeyevich Trigorin in The Seagull. He is married to actress Maggie Gyllenhaal.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Belleville, Illinois, USA
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Birthday: March 07, 1971
Age: 54 years old
Gender: Male
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Jarhead
Overview: Jarhead is a film about a US Marine Anthony Swofford’s experience in the Gulf War. After putting up with an arduous boot camp, Swofford and his unit are sent to the Persian Gulf where they are eager to fight, but are forced to stay back from the action. Swofford struggles with the possibility of his girlfriend cheating on him, and as his mental state deteriorates, his desire to kill increases.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-11-04
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Boys Don't Cry
Overview: A young transgender man explores his gender identity and searches for love in rural Nebraska.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-09-02
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Garden State
Overview: Andrew returns to his hometown for the funeral of his mother, a journey that reconnects him with past friends. The trip coincides with his decision to stop taking his powerful antidepressants. A chance meeting with Sam - a girl also suffering from various maladies - opens up the possibility of rekindling emotional attachments, confronting his psychologist father, and perhaps beginning a new life.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-07-28
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Pet Shop Days
Overview: In an act of desperation, impulsive black sheep Alejandro flees his home in Mexico. On the run from his unforgiving father, Alejandro finds himself in New York City where he meets Jack, a college age pet store employee with similar parental baggage. Together the two enter a whirlwind romance sending them down the rabbit hole of drugs and depravity in Manhattan’s underworld. When Alejandro’s past threatens to catch up with him, Jack is forced to choose between his family and a life on the run.
Genres: Drama Romance Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-09-03
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The Mysteries of Pittsburgh
Overview: Based on Michael Chabon's novel, the film chronicles the defining summer of a recent college graduate who crosses his gangster father and explores love, sexuality, and the enigmas surrounding his life and his city.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-01-20
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Kinsey
Overview: Kinsey is a portrait of researcher Alfred Kinsey, driven to uncover the most private secrets of a nation. What begins for Kinsey as a scientific endeavor soon takes on an intensely personal relevance, ultimately becoming an unexpected journey into the mystery of human behavior.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-09-04
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Orphan
Overview: After losing their baby, a married couple adopt 9-year old Esther, who may not be as innocent as she seems.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-07-24
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Rendition
Overview: When an Egyptian terrorism suspect "disappears" on a flight from Africa to Washington DC, his American wife and a CIA analyst find themselves caught up in a struggle to secure his release from a secret detention facility somewhere outside the US.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-09-07
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The Salton Sea
Overview: After the murder of his beloved wife, a man in search of redemption is set adrift in a world where nothing is as it seems. On his journey, he befriends slacker Jimmy "The Finn", becomes involved in rescuing his neighbor Colette from her own demons, and gets entangled in a web of deceit full of unexpected twists and turns.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-02-12
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An Education
Overview: Despite her sheltered upbringing, Jenny is a teen with a bright future; she's smart, pretty, and has aspirations of attending Oxford University. When David, a charming but much older suitor, motors into her life in a shiny automobile, Jenny gets a taste of adult life that she won't soon forget.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-10-29
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Elegy
Overview: Cultural critic David Kepesh finds his life -- which he indicates is a state of "emancipated manhood" -- thrown into tragic disarray by Consuela Castillo, a well-mannered student who awakens a sense of sexual possessiveness in her teacher.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-08-08
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K-19: The Widowmaker
Overview: When Russia's first nuclear submarine malfunctions on its maiden voyage, the crew must race to save the ship and prevent a nuclear disaster.
Genres: Drama History Thriller Mystery War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-07-19
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The Center of the World
Overview: A couple checks into a suite in Las Vegas. In flashbacks we see that he's a computer whiz on the verge of becoming a dot.com millionaire, she's a lap dancer at a club. He's depressed, withdrawing from work, missing meetings with investors. He wants a connection, so he offers her $10,000 to spend three nights with him in Vegas, and she accepts with conditions. Is mutual attraction stirring?
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-04-19
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The Man in the Iron Mask
Overview: Years have passed since the Three Musketeers, Aramis, Athos and Porthos, have fought together with their friend, D'Artagnan. But with the tyrannical King Louis using his power to wreak havoc in the kingdom while his twin brother, Philippe, remains imprisoned, the Musketeers reunite to abduct Louis and replace him with Philippe.
Genres: Adventure Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-03-12
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Flightplan
Overview: Flying at 40,000 feet in a state-of-the art aircraft that she helped design, Kyle Pratt's 6-year-old daughter Julia vanishes without a trace. Or did she? No one on the plane believes Julia was ever onboard. And now Kyle, desperate and alone, can only count on her own wits to unravel the mystery and save her daughter.
Genres: Thriller Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-09-22
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Empire
Overview: Big time drug dealer Victor Rosa is looking to get out of the game and sees his chance with a big deal with a new friend who happens to be a Wall St. stockbroker. Thinking this will be his chance to go out on top, Victor soon finds out that he's been double crossed and his last option is to get revenge.
Genres: Crime Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-12-06
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The Skeleton Key
Overview: A hospice nurse working at a spooky New Orleans plantation home finds herself entangled in a mystery involving the house's dark past.
Genres: Drama Horror Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-07-29
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Shattered Glass
Overview: The true story of fraudulent Washington, D.C. journalist Stephen Glass, who rose to meteoric heights as a young writer in his 20s, becoming a staff writer at The New Republic for three years. Looking for a short cut to fame, Glass concocted sources, quotes and even entire stories, but his deception did not go unnoticed forever, and eventually, his world came crumbling down.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-11-14
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Year of the Dog
Overview: A secretary's life changes in unexpected ways after her dog dies.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-04-13
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The Dying Gaul
Overview: A grief-stricken screenwriter unknowingly enters a three-way relationship with a woman and her film executive husband - to chilling results.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-01-20
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In the Electric Mist
Overview: Lt. Dave Robicheaux, a detective in New Iberia, Louisiana, is trying to link the murder of a local hooker to New Orleans mobster Julie (Baby Feet) Balboni, who is co-producer of a Civil War film. At the same time, after Elrod Sykes, the star of the film, reports finding another corpse in the Atchafalaya Swamp near the movie set, Robicheaux starts another investigation, believing the corpse to be the remains of a black man who he saw being murdered 35 years before.
Genres: Thriller Drama Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-04-15
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Desert Blue
Overview: An academic obsessed with roadside attractions and his tv-star daughter stop at a small desert town to see the world's largest ice cream cone, where, because of an accident that spilled an unknown substance all over the highway, they are forced to spend a few days with the towns eccentric residents.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-06-04
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Knight and Day
Overview: A fugitive couple goes on a glamorous and sometimes deadly adventure where nothing and no one – even themselves – are what they seem. Amid shifting alliances and unexpected betrayals, they race across the globe, with their survival ultimately hinging on the battle of truth vs. trust.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-06-15
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Green Lantern
Overview: For centuries, a small but powerful force of warriors called the Green Lantern Corps has sworn to keep intergalactic order. Each Green Lantern wears a ring that grants him superpowers. But when a new enemy called Parallax threatens to destroy the balance of power in the Universe, their fate and the fate of Earth lie in the hands of the first human ever recruited.
Genres: Adventure Action Thriller Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-06-14
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Unconditional Love
Overview: After her husband leaves her, a woman travels to London for the funeral of the pop star, Victor Fox, she's adored all her life. There, she meets the lover of the dead pop star, and convinces him to come back to Chicago with her to figure out who killed the singer.
Genres: Drama Comedy Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-08-23
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The Damning of a Country Merchant
Overview: The life of the patriarch of a rural merchant family in 1910 Indiana is suddenly disrupted by a charismatic industrialist who has engaged in a secret affair with his wife. When rising tensions mistakenly lead to a customer's death, his wounded authority and manhood leave him vulnerable to truly bizarre and horrifying forces causing unimaginable chaos and terror.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
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Mama's Little Devils: Bad Seeds and Evil Children
Overview: Featurette on the 2009 horror film Orphan.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-10-27
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Very Good Girls
Overview: Two New York City girls make a pact to lose their virginity during their first summer out of high school. When they both fall for the same street artist, the friends find their connection tested for the first time.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-01-22
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Robot & Frank
Overview: Curmudgeonly old Frank lives by himself. His routine involves daily visits to his local library, where he has a twinkle in his eye for the librarian. His grown children are concerned about their father’s well-being and buy him a caretaker robot. Initially resistant to the idea, Frank soon appreciates the benefits of robotic support – like nutritious meals and a clean house – and eventually begins to treat his robot like a true companion. With his robot’s assistance, Frank’s passion for his old, unlawful profession is reignited, for better or worse.
Genres: Science Fiction Comedy Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-08-24
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Lovelace
Overview: Story of Linda Lovelace, who is used and abused by the porn industry at the behest of her coercive husband, before taking control of her life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-08-08
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Night Moves
Overview: The story about three radical environmentalists coming together to execute the most intense protest of their lives: the explosion of a hydroelectric dam.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-04-23
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The Bride!
Overview: In the 1930s, a lonely Frankenstein travels to Chicago to seek the aid of a Dr. Euphronius in creating a companion for himself. The two reinvigorate a murdered young woman and the Bride is born. She is beyond what either of them intended, igniting a combustible romance, the attention of the police and a wild and radical social movement.
Genres: Horror Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2026-03-05
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Blue Jasmine
Overview: After experiencing a traumatic misfortune, Jasmine French, a wealthy woman from New York, moves to San Francisco to live with her foster sister Ginger and the firm purpose of getting a new life, but she will be haunted by anxiety and memories of the past.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-08-01
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Freak City
Overview: After being diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis, a rebellious young woman is disease-stricken. Upon being admitted to a nursing home, she finds hope in the most unlikely of places...
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-01-16
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Memory
Overview: Sylvia is a social worker who leads a simple and structured life: her daughter, her job, her AA meetings. This is blown open when Saul follows her home from their high school reunion. Their surprise encounter will profoundly impact both of them as they open the door to the past.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-12-22
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Pawn Sacrifice
Overview: American chess champion Bobby Fischer prepares for a legendary match-up against Russian Boris Spassky.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-09-16
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Death of a Dynasty
Overview: A story which centers around Dave Katz, a journalist at a hip-hop magazine who is sent on assignment to uncover the often comedic underworld of Roc-a-Fella Records run by Damon Dash and Jay-Z.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-05-07
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Housebound
Overview: A woman with a tragic past rents her bungalow to a man who loves cooking, but according to her distorted mind he uses his knives more than he should.
Genres: Drama Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-09-02
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Experimenter
Overview: Yale University, 1961. Stanley Milgram designs a psychology experiment that still resonates to this day, in which people think they’re delivering painful electric shocks to an affable stranger strapped into a chair in another room. Despite his pleads for mercy, the majority of subjects don’t stop the experiment, administering what they think is a near-fatal electric shock, simply because they’ve been told to do so. With Nazi Adolf Eichmann’s trial airing in living rooms across America, Milgram strikes a nerve in popular culture and the scientific community with his exploration into people’s tendency to comply with authority. Celebrated in some circles, he is also accused of being a deceptive, manipulative monster, but his wife Sasha stands by him through it all.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-10-16
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Black Mass
Overview: The true story of Whitey Bulger, the brother of a state senator and the most infamous violent criminal in the history of South Boston, who became an FBI informant to take down a Mafia family invading his turf.
Genres: Drama Crime History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-09-17
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Ladygrey
Overview: Estelle fights to maintain her sense of self while sleeping with Angus for money.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2015-05-06
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Dead Man Walking
Overview: A death row inmate turns for spiritual guidance to a local nun in the days leading up to his scheduled execution for the murders of a young couple.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-12-29
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Coup!
Overview: A mysterious grifter appears on an isolated seaside estate claiming to be a wealthy family's new chef. When a plague descends on the island, the mischievous cook rouses his fellow staff to rebel and take over the mansion.
Genres: Comedy Thriller Mystery Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-08-02
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Valley Uprising
Overview: In the shady campgrounds of Yosemite valley, climbers carved out a counterculture lifestyle of dumpster-diving and wild parties that clashed with the conservative values of the National Park Service. And up on the walls, generation after generation has pushed the limits of climbing, vying amongst each other for supremacy on Yosemite's cliffs. "Valley Uprising" is the riveting, unforgettable tale of this bold rock climbing tradition in Yosemite National Park: half a century of struggle against the laws of gravity -- and the laws of the land.
Genres: Adventure Documentary History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-09-01
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Jackie
Overview: An account of the days of First Lady, Jacqueline Kennedy, in the immediate aftermath of John F. Kennedy's assassination in 1963.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-12-02
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The Magnificent Seven
Overview: Looking to mine for gold, greedy industrialist Bartholomew Bogue seizes control of the Old West town of Rose Creek. With their lives in jeopardy, Emma Cullen and other desperate residents turn to bounty hunter Sam Chisolm for help. Chisolm recruits an eclectic group of gunslingers to take on Bogue and his ruthless henchmen. With a deadly showdown on the horizon, the seven mercenaries soon find themselves fighting for more than just money once the bullets start to fly.
Genres: Adventure Action Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-09-14
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Another Day in Paradise
Overview: In the hope of a big score, two junkie couples team up to commit various drug robberies which go disastrously wrong, leading to dissent, violence, and murder.
Genres: Thriller Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-12-30
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The Cell
Overview: A psychotherapist journeys inside a comatose serial killer in the hopes of saving his latest victim.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-08-18
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High Falls
Overview: During a weekend at a country home, a man and his pregnant wife tell their secrets to their best friend, jeopardizing their relationship.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-01-19
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September 5
Overview: During the 1972 Munich Olympics, an American sports broadcasting crew finds itself thrust into covering the hostage crisis involving Israeli athletes.
Genres: Thriller Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-11-07
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Loving Pablo
Overview: The film chronicles the rise and fall of the world's most feared drug lord Pablo Escobar and his volatile love affair with Colombia's most famous journalist Virginia Vallejo throughout a reign of terror that tore a country apart.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2017-10-12
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Jake Gyllenhaal Challenges the Winner of the Nobel Peace Prize
Overview: A remixed narrative that combines two Jake Gyllenhaal films (Donnie Darko and Jarhead) with news footage of former President Barack Obama.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-01-01
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Wormwood
Overview: In this genre-bending tale, Errol Morris explores the mysterious death of a U.S. scientist entangled in a secret Cold War program known as MK-Ultra.
Genres: Documentary Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-10-22
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Mr. Jones
Overview: In 1933, Welsh journalist Gareth Jones travels to Ukraine, where he experiences the horrors of a famine. Everywhere he goes he meets henchmen of the Soviet secret service who are determined to prevent news about the catastrophe from getting out. Stalin’s forced collectivisation of agriculture has resulted in misery and ruin—the policy is tantamount to mass murder.
Genres: Thriller Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-10-03
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Starring Austin Pendleton
Overview: A quirky and inspirational documentary film on the philosophical approach to the life and work of character actor, Austin Pendleton.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-04-01
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The Lie
Overview: A father and daughter are on their way to dance camp when they spot the girl's best friend on the side of the road. When they stop to offer the friend a ride, their good intentions soon result in terrible consequences.
Genres: Horror Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-09-13
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The Sound of Silence
Overview: A successful "house tuner" in New York City, who calibrates the sound in people's homes in order to adjust their moods, meets a client with a problem he can't solve.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-09-13
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Human Capital
Overview: Ian begins a relationship with Drew's daughter, who works in the financial sector. The couple gets involved in a tragic accident that will change their lives forever. At the same time, the accident has a major impact on both their families who, despite the class difference, cross paths.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-07-17
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The Survivor
Overview: Harry Haft is a boxer who fought fellow prisoners in the concentration camps to survive. Haunted by the memories and his guilt, he attempts to use high-profile fights against boxing legends like Rocky Marciano as a way to find his first love again.
Genres: History Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-04-07
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The Batman
Overview: In his second year of fighting crime, Batman uncovers corruption in Gotham City that connects to his own family while facing a serial killer known as the Riddler.
Genres: Crime Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-03-01
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Subway Stories
Overview: An anthology of 10 stories depicting real-life incidents of subway riders in New York City, which range from compassion and love to violence and loss.
Genres: TV Movie Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-07-24
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Best Summer Ever
Overview: A high school football player is shocked to discover that the new girl in school is the same girl he fell in love with at a summer dance camp.
Genres: Music Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-10-10
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The Lost Daughter
Overview: A woman's seaside vacation takes a dark turn when her obsession with a young mother forces her to confront secrets from her past.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-12-15
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The Guilty
Overview: A demoted police officer assigned to a call dispatch desk is conflicted when he receives an emergency phone call from a kidnapped woman.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-09-24
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